Housing prices buck trend
County one of four U.S. areas on rise
By Roger Showley, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.
San Diego County, where housing prices rose and fell ahead of most of the country, was one of only four areas nationally to see an upturn beginning late last year, according to a widely watched housing index released yesterday.
Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index for November showed San Diego-area prices up nearly 0.4 percent from both October 2009 and November 2008. On a seasonally adjusted basis, it was up 1 percent from October and up 0.4 percent year over year.
The only other markets to be up year over year were Dallas, Denver and San Francisco.